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CYPKIPEDIUM. 



brighter coloured flowers j* while the leaves of the later introd action 

 are variable in colour, but always darker than in the original form. 



0. Drurii. 



Rhizome stoutish, sloAvly creeping and ascending. Leaves ligulate, 

 acute, 7 — 10 inches long, of a uniform bright green. Scapes 9 — 

 12 inches high, one-flowered. Bract small and sheathing, with very 

 oblique opening. Flowers about 3 inches across vertically ; upper 



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Cypripedinm Drurii. 



sepal broadly oval, inflcxcd above, ciliolate at the margin, greenish 

 yellow with a broad blackish median band, keeled behind and studded 

 with numerous blackish hairs ; lower sepal similar, but smaller and paler 

 in colour, and frequently with two blackish median lines ; petals ligulate, 

 indexed and undulate, ochreous, almost golden yellow, with a broad, 



* It is the Cypripedinm Dayanum supcrhum of some collections. 



